[KoshNaranek]

My Congratulations to you and your team Jason. In all the excitement of the details of the product, we have lost sight of the elephant in the room. It is not every day that a new Amplifier topology appears. As you indicated in your previous writings, it is only once every few decades. Your achievement should be recognized.
 
Although I am not personally in the market for a new headphone amplifier, I look forward to the new possibilities that appear in the future. I am sure a team as creative as yours will provide many lovely surprises for years to come.
 
My warmest regards.

 

[johnjen]

   
Not gonna lie... I want to see someone actually do this and set their amp on fire. Make it a contest: whoever makes the most spectacular boom gets a replacement amp. All other entries are outta luck.

Yet another example of marketing genius right there I tells ya…
 
JJ 

 

[Armaegis]

  Yet another example of marketing genius right there I tells ya…
 
JJ 

 
Of course, some genius might just wire up four 8-ohm woofers in series so that it presents a nominal 32-ohm load to the amp and see what happens

(the super genius might attach a zobel network...)

 

[7ryder]

 
 
Hey, you know what would be a cool product?  A combo headphone amp/SPEAKER amp!  Maybe with enough power to drive actual room-sized loudspeakers to meaningful levels!  Yea, let's see you do that!
 
Err...

You can already get a LIO integrated from Vinnie Rossi...modular, etc; a bit under powered at 25 watts/channel & quite a bit more expensive than anything in Schitt's line-up, but you do get a choice of colors!

 

[hifuguy]

Here's some bold wishing-out-loud for Schiit's next big blockbuster move, perhaps into the world of desktop preamps... ?
 

1. An audiophile-grade preamp, based on the Jotunheim's architecture
2. The base chassis supports the power supplies, remote & locally controlled volume and input selection  AND  eight "Slots"
3. As with the Jotenheim's USB/Phono slot, each of these slots could be custom populated/configured based on each user's needs
4. Each slot has access to both a balanced input bus and a balanced output bus, or perhapse a seperat input and output bus structures.
5. Output Modules
   1. RCA
   2. XLR
   3. Mono - Sub Out - dual
6. Input Modules
   1. USB Delta/Sigma
   2. USB Multi-bit  (I know, a stretch due to size)
   3. Toslink
   4. AES/EBU
   5. RCA
   6. XLR
   7. ROON Endpoint!
   8. Airplay/Bluetooth/APX
   9. MC Phono
   10. MM Phono
   11. HT Bypass

 
As long as I have my magic wand out, let's add one extra slot... call it a "Flavor" slot.

1. Left "blank/stock" for the base Schiit solid-state sound
2. Tube module
3. Other euphonic "transfer functions" - surprise us!
4. In-Line/Bypass switching of the Flavor Module from the remote?

 
Add it up and you have customization for each user's needs/budget/preferences and a future-proof design.
 
Just dreaming out loud...

 

[Otheronek]

 
 
Jason we are still waiting for the tube based version of the Rag....called the "Eldur"

 

[TGeorgeL]

8 slots? Did somebody say 8 slots? Reminds me of the Apple II Plus from so many years ago!

 

[valiant66]

8 slots? Did somebody say 8 slots? Reminds me of the Apple II Plus from so many years ago!

I remember how excited I was when I got the 80-column card for mine!

.

 

[Armaegis]

@Jason Stoddard
I'm curious, how does Schiit decide which names to use for their products? Do you toss names around randomly until one sticks? Do you pull names from a hat? Is there a dartboard involved?

 

[jimmers]

8 slots? Did somebody say 8 slots? Reminds me of the Apple II Plus from so many years ago!

Reminds me of
 

 

[TGeorgeL]

I remember how excited I was when I got the 80-column card for mine!

.

The language card (64K), the Shift Key Modification!

 

[Ableza]

  You can already get a LIO integrated from Vinnie Rossi...modular, etc; a bit under powered at 25 watts/channel & quite a bit more expensive than anything in Schitt's line-up, but you do get a choice of colors!

You can already get it from Schiit, which was my point.

 

[Vigrith]

  @Jason Stoddard
I'm curious, how does Schiit decide which names to use for their products? Do you toss names around randomly until one sticks? Do you pull names from a hat? Is there a dartboard involved?

 
I'd love to know that as well as referenced in my post a couple pages back - it would make all the sense in the world if the name Jotunheim was planned out.
 
The Jotunn stole Mjolnir('s balanced pot) to fight Asgard!

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

   
I'd love to know that as well as referenced in my post a couple pages back - it would make all the sense in the world if the name Jotunheim was planned out.
 
The Jotunn stole Mjolnir('s balanced pot) to fight Asgard!

as i understand it, asgard is a 'realm' or 'world' to the gods. Valhalla is a fortress within asgard, which doesn't really make much sense in terms of headphone amplifiers.

 

[Vigrith]

as i understand it, asgard is a 'realm' or 'world' to the gods. Valhalla is a fortress within asgard, which doesn't really make much sense in terms of headphone amplifiers.

 
Yeah Asgard is the realm of the Aesir (Gods), one of the nine worlds, Jotunheim being one of them also. Valhalla is a hall or fortress as you put it, heroes that died in battle are brought there by Valkyries to train for the battle of Ragnarok.
 
Those Valkyries are commonly described as (angels of) light in a world/time of darkness. I'd imagine this was taken into consideration given the Valhalla is a tube amplifier!
 

 
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/coo/coo16.htm - the story of how the Jotunn tried to get the upper hand on the Aesir and take over Asgard by stealing and concealing Mjolnir can be read here.
 
Or maybe they just come up with random names and I'm delusional, but either way it's very interesting!